ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Close Reading
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Close reading: experiencing the human-nature contact zone" through the technologies of language and wriing. Goal is not general meaning but assemblages of ideas and objects looking for paterns, tensions, paradoxes. General reading entails that our experience of the world is comprised of memories; close reading entails that we atend to the world as it appears to us now with us completely in it. Another essay in which the content/meaning of the story is less important than the experience of reading it. As she moves her telescope around the city, she invites us to experience, comtemplate, imagine. Establishing contacts between the natural and the human . She tries to tell us what she sees, by arranging what she sees, providing a diferent perspecive. From there is something slightly hallucinogenic to . disorderly row of chimneypots (p119- 120: the care jamie put into the language, she"s collecing the city to herself. Not simple sense of what this means, but what we can do.
